Rilke CMS is a PHP based content management system. It can be used to
publish a variety of different websites, including personal and
collaborative weblogs.

Introducing Rilke CMS

Rilke CMS is a PHP based content management system. It can be used to
publish a variety of different websites, including personal and
collaborative weblogs. While many open source content management systems have a steep learning curve, Rilke CMS is designed to be usable by anyone who has used a word processor before.

September 03, 2003

Rilke CMS 0.95 beta
The eighth release of Rilke CMS, version 0.95 beta has been made available at SourceForge.

Rilke CMS 0.95 beta is a big feature release. It also fixes many long standing bugs.

New Features in 0.95 beta include:

A redesigned default theme

A built in permissions / user-level system (writer, editor, administrator)

A complete user interface for adminstering users (only available to administrators)

Customizable Links (via a styled drop down menu)

Customizable Blogroll + Integrated Mini RSS Feed Aggregator

A customizable contact info block

This release also fixes many bugs, including the (remaining) bugs that occured with register globals turned off in PHP.
The total number of major changes (including feature additions and bug fixes) is 20.

Rilke CMS 0.90 is a feature, internationalization, bug-fix and code-cleanup release. A lot of structural changes have been made in this version in order to accomodate a *one-click language change* system for the administration screen. Currently there is built-in language support for English and German. This release has Quick Post support, meaning you can add an entry from Mozilla's Sidebar, Mozilla Firebird's Web Panel, and Opera's Web Panel.

Additionally, the group of bugs which plagued the image attachment process seem to have been finally fixed. Major code cleanup of the administration screen which began in 0.85 has progressed nicely. This is the first release which has been tested extensively with register globals turned off in PHP, and it seems to work. For a detailed list of changes, please review the Changelog and this more descriptive article at the Rilke CMS News site.

Rilke CMS 0.8.5
The sixth public release has been made available at SourceForge.
Rilke CMS 0.8.5 is a bug fix, code-cleanup and internationalization-oriented release. In this release, a group of bugs that caused foreign accents (for example, German Umlauts) to not show up correctly was fixed. Additionally, major code cleanup of the administration screen has begun, with two goals: 1) Make the user interface easily available in different languages 2)Make the code easier to read. The internationalization work is not yet complete, but the main foundation for it has been set with this release.

Important: Please add the following line
to the end of the prefs.php
configuration file after you have generated it:

require_once("lang.php");

Due to an oversight on my part, I forgot to update the prefs generator before I released the 0.8.5 files. I am sorry about this inconvenience.

For a detailed list of the bugs fixed please review the changelog. For detailed general, technical and setup information, please review the readme file.

July 24, 2003

Rilke CMS 0.8.4
The fifth public release has been made available at SourceForge.
Rilke CMS 0.8.4 is a feature and bug fix release. This version has two new themes (Lax and Highlite), dates next to post titles in the All Posts page, a better looking Log-In page, better compatibility with Mozilla 1.5 alpha, a new way to preview themes (without needing pre-captured images) and other miscellaneous changes.

For a detailed list of the bugs fixed and features added please review the changelog. For detailed general, technical and setup information, please review the readme file. If you have questions regarding Rilke CMS, I can be reached via email (listed in the linked readme file above).

July 17, 2003

Rilke CMS 0.8.3 released!
The fourth public release of Rilke CMS has been made available at SourceForge. This is a bug fix and feature release. The new feature in this release is author tracking: who edited a post last, and when. This public display of authorship changes would be useful in a multi-user environment.

For a detailed list of the bugs fixed (some changes are still missing from this list) please review the changelog. For detailed general, technical and setup information, please review the readme file.

Upgrade Notice: Please read the readme file carefully because it details database table changes you have to make before you can upgrade!

July 15, 2003

New Themes Documentation:
A first draft of documentation on making your own theme for Rilke CMS has been made available. This document will be of use to you if you would like to customize your Rilke CMS powered site so that it has your logo, your colors, and your look-and-feel. Check it out.

Coming Soon- More Themes Tools and Features: A browser based theme generator (where you can enter the HTML for your theme, and the PHP code is automatically filled in). I also plan to add a Theme Park to this site where you can download new themes for Rilke CMS. It will launch with about 5 new themes.

Also Coming Soon: A new version of Rilke CMS, version 0.83. This version keeps tracks of who created and edited a post, and displays that information along with a post. It also includes fixes for several bugs. Please Note: The database table structure has slightly changed in the upcoming version 0.83; so if you are planning to upgrade from version 0.82, stay tuned for instructions (for those using PHPMyAdmin) on making these changes.

July 08, 2003 - Rilke CMS 0.8.2 Released!

The third public release of Rilke CMS has been made available at SourceForge. This is a security, bug fix, and compatibility release. Quite a few nasty bug were fixed in this release, so be sure to upgrade.
The readme file / release notes got a nice makeover, so make sure to check out their spiffy new look!

For a detailed list of the bugs fixed (some changes are still missing from this list) please review the changelog. For detailed general, technical and setup information, please review the readme file.

This release is bug fix and compatibility release. There were many small changes to many files.
I am happy to report that as a result of some these changes, Rilke CMS now works very well on Windows XP too (PHP 4.3+, Apache 1.3x, MySQL 3.2+).

For a detailed list of the bugs fixed (some changes are still missing from this list) please review the changelog. For detailed general, technical and setup information, please review the readme file.

June 30, 2003:
The first release of Rilke CMS, version 0.8 (beta) has been made available at SourceForge. For detailed general, technical and setup information, please review the readme file.

It features:

An easy to use WYSIWYG publishing screen. Anyone who has used a word processor before will be able to use Rilke CMS

Easy look-and-feel adaptability, due its reliance on CSS based layouts